SDQR migrations in Caenorhabditis elegans are controlled by multiple guidance cues and changing responses to netrin UNC-6

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 3881-3890

  Kim, Seonhee ^a   Ren, Xing Cong ^a   Fox, Eileen ^a   Wadsworth, William G ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon guidance; Caernorhabditis elegans; Cell migration; Netrin; SDQR; unc 6; UNC 6

Indexed keywords

NETRIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MIGRATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; AXONS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL MOVEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELMINTH PROTEINS; LARVA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0344993969     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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